photo by Nikola Milatovic
GITTA WIGRO
Gitta Wigro is a freelance dance film programmer and curator based in London, UK, and has worked with a wide range of international screendance festivals, institutions and projects as a programmer, curator, juror, consultant and lecturer.
She is a programmer for the Screendance Competition at Leeds International Film Festival and one of the co-directors of Kinesthesia Festival.
She is a core lecturer at the Screendance MA at London Contemporary Dance School, and in that role facilitates the student-led dance film festival Frame Rush.
She also co-ordinates the International Screendance Calendar.
photo by Roswitha Chesher
DAMIÁN MUNOZ
Damián Muñoz is creator and artistic director of the contemporary dance company LA INTRUSA formed in 1996 together with Virginia García. He creats, directs and produces audiovisual and stage projects both for his company and for other international companies.
His creations have been represented in more than 30 countries and have received national and international awards, like „Best film“ at the Dance Camera Festival Amsterdam and „Best short film“ Sitges International Film Festival for „Coup de Grâce“ (2012). In 2015 he receives the „National Dance Prize“: His excellence in research in contemporary dance, delving into the physicality and scenic poetry that is so identifying of his work and its permeability to integrate new artistic languages that contribute to the growth of the stage act.
MARINELLA GUATTERINI
Marinella Guatterini is professor of Aesthetics and History of Dance at the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi and coordinator of its Contemporary Dance Course (first level university). An essayist and historical signature of dance and ballet criticism, she writes for the cultural page of „Il Foglio „and for foreign newspapers and magazines. She is the author of books and essays, lectures in Italy and abroad. She has taught at the Université Paris III – La Sorbonne, at the Dams of the Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna and at the Catholic University (Milan). Since 1997 she has curated the ballet programs of the Teatro alla Scala. Since 2011 he has directed a project on memory accompanied by librettos and videos: RIC.CI: Reconstruction Italian Contemporary Choreography anni 80/’90, now in its tenth stage. She is Project Advisor to Fondazione Prada Milan (Through the Walls of Mist 2016 by Billy Cowie; Emergency Entrance 2019, by Elie Tass). She has received various awards for her work until 2022. She has been invited to become a Member of the International Dance Council CID(Unesco).